Faucet and nozzle for cans



(No Model.)

G; W. BANKER. I i

I FAUGBT AND NOZZLE FOR CANS.

No; 365,563. Patented June 28,1887.

WITNESSES.- I INVENTOR v-fl cldw v ATTORNEY N. 'PETERS. FhutrrUthograph-r, Washington. m c.

UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. BANKER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

FAUCET AND NOZZLE FOR QANS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 365,563, dated June 28, 1887.

Application filed April 25, 1887. Serial No. 236,106. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 1 (shown in Fig. 1) and upon the lower end of Be it known that I, GEORGE W. BANKER, the plungers (shown in Figs. 2 and 3) is formed of Brooklyn, county of Kings, State of New a downwardly-projecting radiallyextending 55 York, a citizen of the United States, have inflange, b. 5 vented certain new and useful Improvements At D is shown a disk with a downwardlyin Faucets and Nozzles for Oil-Cans, of which projecting edge, (1, adapted to engage the face the following is a full, clear, and exact deof the annular elastic valve-seat 0, (shown in scription, reference being bad to the accoineach figure of the drawings) as stated, and the 6c panying drawings, forming part of this specirim of this disk is in each instance turned upiication. ward and loosely around and over the flange My invention relates to a faucet or nozzle 1), carried by the plug or the plungers B, as for fluid-holding vessels, such as'oil-cans; and shown at d in the several figures of the drawitconsistsin the devices hereinafter described, ings. The disks D thus constitute valves car- 6 constructed and combined to operate as and ried in one instance by the plug and in the for the purpose hereinafter set forth. other by the plunger of the faucets, which are Figure l is a vertical central sectional view free to rotate on the flanges b of the operating of a nozzle and its screw-seated plug for an device. By means of this construction, when Oil-can and containingmy invention. Fig. 2- the plug, to close the nozzle shown in Fig. 1, is a similar view of a faucet containing my inor the plunger, to close the faucet, is screwed A 20 vention, and Fig. 3 is a similar view of a modidown and the disk D in each case engages the fied form of faucet containing the invention. elastic seat 0, the further turning down of the A represents the body or barrel of the nozplug or plunger will operate solely to press the zle shown in Fig. 1 and also the body or bardisks D at their edges 01 tightly to the seats 0, rel of the faucets shown in Figs. 2 and 3. In said disks remaining stationary so far as the z 5 the nozzle and faucets shown the barrel A is movement of the plugor plunger is concerned, partially closed at the bottom by a perforated said plug or plunger being free to rotate within disk, a, and the faucets are closed at the top the turned rim (1 of the disk. The non-roeither by the centrally-perforated detachable tation of the valve-disk D, in tightening the screw-cap a, as shown in Fig. 2, or by the same to the elastic valve-seat, thus secured,

o continuous portion a of the barrel, constitutobviates the wear of the valve-seat and gives ing the top, said portion a having a central a most effective and economically-constructed opening, as shown. The cap a or top a valve device in nozzles and faucets for oil-cans. have the upwardly-extended annular flange a I find it desirable in constructing the dearound their central openings, which flange is scribed valve device when the same is to be 5 threaded, as shown. In the nozzle shown in used in connection with a valve-seat, 0, com- Fig. l the upper portion of the. barrel A is posed of cork, to form the downwardly-prothreaded, as shown. The plug B, which closes jecting edge 11 of the disk D with the flat face the nozzle, as shown in Fig. 1, is threaded to d, as shown in Fig. 3. This flat face (1 is c screw down into the nozzle. The plungers B adapted to bear broadly on the surface of the 40 (shown in Figs. 2 and 3) are threaded to screw cork, and in pressing the valve-disk D tightly up and down in the threaded flanges a to open to its seat the flat face (1 obviates the cutting or close the faucet. or wearing of the cork, which is liable to en- B is the customary thumb-piece on the plug sue if the edge (I is sharp or angular. Then 5 or plunger B, serving to operate the same. other elastic material-such as leather or lino- 45 Upon the disks forming the bottoms of the leumis used as the ring 0 in place of cork, nozzle and faucet devices, as shown at a, the as described, the rounded edge d (shown in valve-seats O, of cork or other elastic ma- Figs. 1 and 2) may be effectively employed on terial, are seated, and they are desirably sethe valve-disk D, as the cutting or wear of the cured in place by an upwardly-turned intematerial of the valve-seat is then not so likely 50 rior rim, a, on the disks, as shown, engaging to ensue, owing to the nature of such material. the inner rim of the annular valve-seats. What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Upon the lower end of the nozzle-plug 1. In a nozzle or faucet for oil-cans, the combination of the screw-threaded Valve-opcrating device B, working in a screw-threaded bearingin the body A, and having at its lower end the downwardlyprojecting radially-extended flange I), and the valve-disk D, having the downwardly-projecting edge 01 and the rim (2, turned upward loosely over and upon said flange I), together with the annular elastic valve-seat 0 around the opening in the bottom of said body, all constructed and arranged to operate as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a nozzle or faucet for oil-cans, the combination of the screw-threaded valve-operating device B, Working in a screw-threaded bearing in the body A, and having at its lower end the downwardlyextending radial flange b, and the valve-disk D, having the downwardly-projecting edge (I, with the flat face (1 and the rim (1, turned loosely over and upon said flange b, together with the annular cork valve-seat, around the opening in the bottom of said body, all constructed and arranged to operate as and for the purpose specified.

GEORGE W. BANKER. Vitnesses:

A. S. FITCH,

A. G. N. VERMILYE. 

